Flight Test Safety Fact, 26-06
Blast off into the summer with more space, the celestial kind, in this edition of the Flight Test Safety Fact, and lots of (white) space to report on all the things FTSC has done or did at the Flight Test
your words matter
Words have the power of life and death. With a single word, you can save the lives of the aircrew or prevent an airplane crash: “Abort!” A word like that…
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It’s here. The much acclaimed guide to finding sparkling water or other beverages, food, merriment, and running trails—all to be enjoyed during the off hours of the coming Workshop—is attached to this email. But if you aren’t going to make
Flight Test Safety Fact, 26-03
“Houston, we have a problem!” To continue a thread from last month’s inspirational Apollo observations, I feel it’s necessary to announce that many of our young professionals don’t know the iconic movie quote or the story of Apollo 13. That
Flight Test Safety Fact, 26-01
Just in time for the seventh day of the new year—or whenever you get this—this edition contains inspiration and information, something to help you build momentum in the new year. The new year is also time to make decisions about
Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-12
What does Pike’s Peak have to do with Thanksgiving, Flight Test Safety, and flooding? “Flooding,” you wonder aloud? Yes, flooding… We are drowning in data and facts, pixels and posts. It’s a flood of biblical proportions. The answer isn’t more
What Got Us Here
Many years ago, I took my wife to Colorado Springs to visit our son, an exchange student there, and we drove to the top of Pike’s Peak. On a clear day, you can see for more than fifty miles, and
The Napkin has no Back
I don’t really understand why we are making so many notes on envelopes, but the back of the napkin is the same as the front, unless it has a picture on it.
Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-10
Seventy-eight years ago today, on October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, and so today felt like the right time to break the silence that had fallen on this newsletter for the past five
Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-05
Do you remember when your coaches or your parents told you to “focus on the fundamentals”? Where did that phrase come from? And is it true that Vince Lombardi said “brilliant at the basics” instead of referring to “the fundamentals”?
Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-03
Sometimes I ponder the “days of yore” and the way scientists of the time corresponded in writing, together with the ad hoc postal system of the day. Today, we correspond by email in near real time. I say “near real